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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1939 334 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1939 | |
| Object Number: | 334 | |
| Description: | Lekythos with foot in two degrees, concave undersurface with central depression; narrow stem, nearly cylindrical body, flaring slightly to low, sloping shoulder; cylindrical neck; vertical strap handle attached to shoulder and neck, flaring rim and tapered, horizontal lip. | |
| Decoration: | Dionysos between maenads on mules. Wearing wreath, chiton, and himation, Dionysos moves to right, head turned left. He holds vine branches and drinking horn (?). Maenads wear short chitons and fillets; mules ithyphallic. Above, key to right. On shoulder, tongues and rays. Red: Dionysos' wreath, maenads' fillets, stripes on drapery, crests of mules. White: female flesh, throats and chests of mules, Dionysos' chiton, line on drinking horn (?), leaves on Dionysos' wreath. Manner of the Haimon Painter. | |
| Mythology: | Dionysos and maenads | |
| Attributes: | rhyton | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact, with chipped glaze and dirty surface. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | 490-470 B.C. | |
| Area: | Hexamilia Tombs | |
| Context: | NB156 P87 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 64.3, 1995, cat. 200. | |
| Site: | Tombs, Heximilia | |
| City: | Hexamilia | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 64:3, 1995 Monument: Hexamilia Tombs Basket: NB156 P87 Notebook Page: NB 156, spread 50 (pp. 87 - 88) |
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